This review aims to redress the growing gap between the receding discourse on
bureaucracy and bureaucracy's continuing presence as the predominant organizational …

What are practice theories? Where do they come from? What do they say? Do they offer
something new to the study of work and organization? Practice theories are a set of …

Over recent decades, a number of managerial reform initiatives in continental Europe have
aimed at moving away from the traditional Weberian model of public administration. Such …

In this article, the authors analyze whether and to what extent an “old” administrative
orientation is being replaced by a new managerial logic in the Austrian public sector. They …

While temporality is generally acknowledged as a critical ingredient in processes of identity
formation, studies of identity talk usually assume collective identity is essentially about …

Increasing numbers of studies are identifying 'identity work'in research participants' efforts to
establish, maintain, deny or change the identity positions being ascribed to self and other …

Based on an executive survey this article analyses the extent to which a new managerial
logic has replaced traditional administrative values and identity in Austria. We do not find …

This paper examines the daily struggles of unionized employees whose municipal
workplace was undergoing major change influenced by New Public Management. In-depth …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to argue that foundational terms in work‐learning
research, specifically “learning”,“work”, and “workplace”, are inherently complex and …

Communicating and Organizing in Context integrates Giddens' structuration theory with
Goffman's interaction order and develops a new theoretical base—the theory of …